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Changes to the milk's quality profile brought about by the introduction of various pollutants. There have been reports in the scientific literature of technological devices that use portable sensors to investigate both direct and indirect transduction events. In order to identify milk impurities, conductive sensors that are equipped with selective sensitivity films are utilised the majority of the time. On the other hand, it is essential to keep in mind that these sensors need to be calibrated and that they exhibit drift as they get older. It is of the utmost importance to own a detecting system that is not only inexpensive but also sensitive, quick, and simple to operate. Methodologies and Instruments for Research: For the purpose of collecting the twenty samples, two groups of 10 were utilised. The random forest algorithm is utilised in Group 1, one of the groups. The approach of logistic regression is utilised for Group 2 in this study. It is estimated that the G power test is successful approximately 80 percent of the time. G power equals 0.80, and β equals 0.05. These are the parameters that make up the power arrangement. Using a sample size of n = 20, the categorization is carried out by employing two different kinds of algorithms in conjunction with the scaling provided by the Python Extension. With a p-value of less than 0.05 and an independent sample t-test of 0.0467, the results demonstrate that the Random Forest Algorithm works better than the logistic regression algorithm. The Random Forest Algorithm achieves an accuracy of 94.39 percent, while the logistic regression algorithm achieves an accuracy of 81 percent. Taking into consideration the findings, it would appear that the Random forest method is superior than the logistic regression approach in terms of accuracy (99.86 percent) when it comes to predicting milk quality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Diagrams and formulae for the buckling length factors β and for the critical forces Fcr of various frames. They are part of the large parametrical studies prepared for the Technical report Baláž, I., Snijder, H. H., Stroetmann, R.: CEN/TR 1993-1-103 Eurocode 3 – Design of Steel Structures – Part 1-103: Elastic Critical Buckling of Members. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Living in the 21st century is not easy, primarily due to the abundance of accessible information. Consequently, the next generation must possess scientific literacy. In response to this issue, modern schooling must prioritise the development of thinking skills among students. In this regard, scientific process skills hold great importance within the context of science education. While there are numerous reports on scientific process skills available in scholarly literature, the evaluation of these skills through an online test with a proper theoretical framework is rarely documented. Therefore, this study aims to bridge this gap by employing a cognitive domain framework. We designed an open-ended test to measure students' scientific process skills. The instruments used in the study were validated for content and construct validity. Prior to implementation, the instrument was pilot-tested and met the criteria for reliability. Furthermore, 54 students from several junior high schools in Kediri District, Indonesia, participated in this study. The distribution of male and female students was 35.8% and 64.2%, respectively. In summary, the study revealed that the students' basic and integrated scientific process skills were at low levels. Additionally, the influence of gender on students' scientific process skills was also examined in this study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many scientific reports have stated that the growth and production of Moringa (Moringa oleifera Lam.) leaves, both in quantity and quality, are influenced by genotype factors. This study aimed to identify some agronomic traits and nutritional content variations of Moringa from several locations/accessions in Indonesia. The seeds of 4 accessions of Moringa, namely, Cibinong (C), Sumenep (S), Palu (P), and Jayapura (J), were planted at the same location in Cibinong, West Java. This experiment was arranged in Complete Randomized Block Design with three replications (blocks). Each accession was planted in five beds with 18 plants per bed (a total of 90 plants in each accession per block). Five plants in the center of the bed were determined as observed samples for each accession. The agronomic traits observed were plant growth (plant height, stem diameter, canopy diameter, compound leaves length and width, leaflets number and area) and leaves production (dry leaflet weight). The nutritional content observed was carbohydrates, protein, fat, ash, and calcium. The results showed that the Cibinong accession had the highest growth and leaves production quantity but was the lowest in quality based on mineral content (calcium and ash). Sumenep and Palu were superior in nutritional content but inferior in agronomic traits. In contrast, Jayapura was superior in both agronomic characteristics and nutritional content. This result can be used as a base for the Moringa breeding program to create a new superior variety. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the use of the modal auxiliary verb in scientific and non-scientific writing. The purpose of this study is to investigate that modal auxiliary verb plays an imperative role in the writing of scientific reports. The modal auxiliary verb has many roles in predicting, commanding, suggesting, and other roles. Good command of the knowledge about modal auxiliary verb helps a science writer in his or her writing. This is very important for their projects, dissertation, reports, journal publications, and more. The corpus studied is the Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen Corpus (LOB). We utilized the Oxford Wordsmith Tools Version 8 as the methodology. The finding shows that would is the most popular modal verb across genres and shall is the least popular one. This also indicates that different genres prescribe different writing styles and influence the usage of the modal auxiliary verb. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The search and extraction of knowledge is based on fairly basic principles of identifying individual words, analyzing their morphology, statistical patterns and the joint occurrence of linguistic units in a scientific text. One of the most significant and promising areas of semantic analysis is the use of abstracting technologies to automate the process of extracting scientific frames. The implementation of the ontology of frames with accompanying frames with additional information in the form of associative and cause-and-effect relationships is proposed. An algorithm for extractive summarization is developed based on the deterministic selection of relevant information from the segments of the object semantic network. The result of the algorithm is a frame extracted from scientific texts with relation to the reference multiset of keywords. A frame analysis is performed of how the system of scientific knowledge is organized in the reports of the scientific and technical program, in what systemic relations are its concepts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work in progress is a mixed-methods systematic review that addresses the gap in literature specific to the conversation around how the engineering professoriate retains women in the field. The National Analysis of Diversity in Science and Engineering Faculties at Research Universities has shown that there is a significant underrepresentation of women faculty within the field of science and engineering. In this work-in-progress paper we report on a mixedmethods systematic review of literature conducted to explore the retention of women in the engineering professoriate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social Haptic Communication (SHC) is one of the many tactile modes of communication used by persons with deafblindness to access information about their surroundings. SHC usually involves an interpreter executing finger and hand signs on the back of a person with multi-sensory disabilities. Learning SHC, however, can become challenging and time-consuming, particularly to those who experience deafblindness later in life. In this work, we present PatRec: a mobile game for learning SHC concepts. PatRec is a multiple-choice quiz game connected to a chair interface that contains a 3x3 array of vibration motors emulating different SHC signs. Players collect scores and badges whenever they guess the right SHC vibration pattern, leading to continuous engagement and a better position on a leaderboard. The game is also meant for family members to learn SHC. We report the technical implementation of PatRec and the findings from a user evaluation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There are currently 90 operational CSP plants of 10 MW or larger located throughout the world, primarily in Spain, U.S., MENA region, South Africa, and China. In 2018, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) funded Solar Dynamics, under subcontract to NREL, to investigate and document lessons learned and best practices associated with the construction, start-up, and operations phases of a majority of these plants. DOE funding for the effort was leveraged by additional funds provided through SolarPACES and the World Bank. This information was obtained by interviewing key stakeholders representing CSP plant owners, operators, construction companies, vendors, technical advisors and financers of these systems, and will be published as an NREL Technical Report at the completion of the project. This paper provides an overview of key challenges facing today's CSP parabolic trough and power tower technologies during all the phases mentioned above. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Now rapid growth of number of the devices communicating among themselves in LTE (Long-Term Evolution) networks and also increase in volume of transmitted data is observed. The task of reduction of signal and user load, which is serviced by communication networks is relevant. For this purpose algorithms of the simplified interaction between the user devices and a network are being developed and implemented to minimize the spent network resources. In this paper the session initiation procedure between the User Equipment and the LTE eNodeB is analyzed. The problem of the small data transmission formed by the Machine-To-Machine (M2M) connections can be solved by using a Random Access Channel (RACH) for session initiation. Such solution was proposed in the technical report 37.868 of 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) consortium. For a RACH session initiation procedure it is necessary to evaluate preliminary measures such as access delay, access success probability, access failure pobability, statistics on number of preamble transmissions in case of successful access. In this paper we propose formulas for all listed measures estimation using the virtual preambles approach. Numerical analysis shows the accuracy of the proposed analytical model in the form of the Markov chain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Agricultural machinery manufacturers historically referred to the intermediate players for selling, maintenance, customer service and/or training of equipment appear to interact with farmers and end-users. Intermediate players have therefore faced the burden to master the technology, in constant evolution, and the associated training needs at the interface between a sophisticated equipment and the enduser and its sociological characteristics (age, education, background, etc.). However, the effective deployment of agricultural technologies data augmented equipment demands well trained players. How to ensure that the intermediate players have the required skills to integrate the use of agtech in the farm? This paper will discuss the role of educational and ongoing vocational training for the mastery of agtech. We will start from a comparative review of some key national and European technical reports in the agricultural equipment and innovation domains. On these bases, we will focus on France to describe the role of intermediate players of the agricultural equipment sector to realize their agricultural and digital transitions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The library of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) focuses on collecting conference proceedings and technical reports which are very important and referred to as materials for our users in the field of nuclear science and technology. Increasing numbers of cases are published in electronic media such as CD/DVD-ROM and flash memory. Meanwhile, problems exist as to how to manage such electronic media in a library such as long-term preservation and permanent access, because such electronic media are updated or changed in terms of specifications. For this reason, it is well known that respective electronic media would be unavailable. Therefore it's necessary to have appropriate playback equipment and software corresponding to the electronic media. The lifetime of electronic media is much shorter compared with paper and microform. The authors would like to present the JAEA Library's current activities on long-term preservation and use of electronic media. They conclude the fact that even published electronic media are becoming grey literature in certain environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We report on the Meeting of Scientific Women in Perú (MSWP), held on February 11, 2016. The event, which commemorated the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, was held at the Department of Physical Sciences (FCF) of the Greater National University of San Marcos (UNMSM).We also discuss about the importance of the participation of professional women in the Department of Physical Sciences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ABSTRACT This paper proposes a 'rough co-citation', which is a measure of relationship to expand co-citation networks so as to include new relevant documents. A rough co-citation relationship is a linkage between a pair of documents which are cited by two other documents in a similar citation context. The linkage strength of a rough co-citation relationship may be weaker than the original co-citation relationship, because a rough co-citation relationship is determined by citations in two separate documents. Rough co-citation linkages, however, may yield new relevant documents that are not identified by the original co-citation linkages. For example, the rough co-citation can identify relevant documents that are published after the citing document of the original co-citation becomes public. This study conducted IR experiments to evaluate the search performances of retrieval methods using the co-citation networks expanded by the rough co-citation relationships. Specifically, the random walk with restart, which is one of the latest graph search algorithms, is applied to the expanded and original co-citation networks. Scores of the normalized discounted cumulative gain (nDCG@K) are then compared. The results indicate that the search performance of the method using the expanded network outperforms a baseline method using the original network. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Learning how to write technical reports can be difficult for undergraduate engineering students that have had very little, if any, experience with technical report writing in their high school classes. The laboratory course "Engineering Measurement and Data Analysis" is required for all undergraduate engineering students at Grand Valley State University, with a major focus of this course being technical report writing. In order to guide the students in preparing technical reports, templates were designed to act as an example of how to present their laboratory results in a technical report format. The templates slowly transitioned the students into writing the reports on their own, without the use of a template. This was done by providing a full template for the first laboratory activity, where the students simply had to fill in the fields of the template with information from their own laboratory activity. For the second laboratory activity, the students were provided a partial template where they had to focus only on writing certain sections of the report and the other sections were provided as a template with fields to complete. The final template was another partial template that required the students to focus on writing the sections of the report that were not the focus of the earlier partial template, and the rest of the report was provided as a template with fields to complete. By the fourth laboratory activity, the students prepared full technical reports without the use of any template. This guided approach using writing templates was incorporated into the Engineering Measurement and Data Analysis class in addition to technical report writing guidelines and examples that have been used previously. Feedback from the students indicated that the templates helped them understand how to apply the guidelines for technical report writing. One area of concern was that the students could become confused with the clarity of what is to be inserted into the fields of the templates. Updates to the templates themselves will be completed for use in future classes. This paper presents an overview of the guided approach as well as the outcomes and feedback from the students that participated in the class. The plans for further modifications and improvements to this approach will also be presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a case study on sharing technical reports through Open Application Programming Interface (API) in Korea. It mentions how Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information has been involved in collecting the technical reports of national research projects through National Science & Technology Information System (NTIS). It further analyzes the effect of National Discovery for Science Leaders Open Service on the usage of national research technical reports.

A conference paper about research life cycle of Nanotechnology (NT) and its innovation through the use of grey literature in Korea is presented at the 14th International Conference on Grey Literature (GL14) held at the National Research Council (CNR) in Rome, Italy on November 29-30, 2012. Topics discussed include the technical reports on the process of innovation, scholarly communication system in Korea and significance of white literature.

The article provides information regarding a survey conducted by Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), regarding the science and technology grey literature since 1962. It mentions that efforts are been made by KISTI for acquisition, distribution and analysis of the usage of technical reports and conference proceedings. According to the statistics there is open access to technical reports by the Korean researchers.

The research report is devoted to the development of a new method of nanostructures formation in ITO/p-Si/Al structure with powerful laser radiation and study of its optical and electrical properties for solar cells applications. It was showed that after the structure irradiation by the second harmonic of Nd:YAG laser, dark current voltage characteristics become diode-like. Increase of ITO/p-Si/Al structure power after irradiation by laser, using photocurrent voltage characteristic method, was shown. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Statistical figures are compelling means to convince top management of the importance of Knowledge Management (KM). External statistics are usually less impactful than internal ones. However, and in the absence of internal data at the early stages of KM initiatives, many companies gather published data for similar industry. In the present case, we compiled information from previous experiences of companies in the same line of business; therefore, management by-in was obtained, and the KM project was successfully implemented; but there was a need to generate internal numbers to support all the wonderful claims of KM, and convince all KM players from the technician to the organisation president; the ultimate aim is to have a sustainable Knowledge Management project across the organization, with visible, tangible, and measurable results. Armed with the assertion "data is power", Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and other metrics were devised and incorporated into our KM processes; these measurements are being pulled out systematically, and published to the whole audience. KPIs measured included the effect of KM on (i) customer satisfaction, (ii) business impact (i.e. savings), (iii) number of projects completed on time, (iv) and the number of technical reports generated per unit of research area. Over the past few years, the data we generated shows a significant increase in customer satisfaction with our organization services; measurable savings were recorded each year; project timely completion indicator rose to unattainable levels as compared to previous data; the electronic technical and scientific library saw an accumulation of valuable know-how reports. Knowledge re-use as evidenced by reliance on internal resources was the norm and routine practice. On the other hand, many other qualitative observations, like effect on health,safety, and the environment are being quantified for inclusion in the KPI reporting. We believe that numerical values coupled with other tangible concrete results will ensure a viable and sustainable KM in our organization. Data analysis and interpretation will be further detailed and presented This paper addresses the relationship between the value of data and KPIs to the sustainability of knowledge management (KM). It proves that autogenerated internal statistics is a powerful tool to convince and re-assure the organization that KM can indeed increase efficiency, enhance customer satisfaction, and drive savings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims to reflect on the necessity of update the Guidelines for the production of scientific and technical reports, taking into consideration the rapid changes in the information market. The Guidelines are to be considered as a suggested model rather than a model in itself and represent a basic step to improve the quality in the different stages of GL production in view of its wide electronic circulation.

While availability and access to more recent technical report literature has greatly improved through electronic delivery, older technical report literature still remains elusive to users. The challenges posed by these collections are two-fold: 1 ) the diverse nature of distribution and collection building practices across institutions; and, 2) the variability in the selection and acquisition methods used, resulting in incomplete series, confusion in depository and non-depository status, lack of awareness and definition of a "complete collection," and a host of other inconsistencies. Through a national dialogue among academic librarians led by University of Arizona Libraries (UAL) beginning in 2005, common discoveries were made about the various barriers libraries were experiencing in managing and making accessible legacy technical report collections, and the urgent need to address these issues. The positive response to these dialogues and preliminary assessment results led to an extraordinary opportunity to resolve a difficult challenge in academic and special libraries. These problems created a strong case for establishing the Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL) collectively maintained by the library community The Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL) aims to identify, digitize, archive, and provide persistent and unrestricted access to federal technical reports issued prior to 1975. TRAIL is a Greater Western Library Alliance initiative led by the University of Arizona in collaboration with the Center for Research Libraries. TRAIL is funded by the member institutions of the Greater Western Library Alliance with an estimated annual budget of $128,000. To date, TRAIL has scanned more than one million pages of technical reports issued by the US federal government agencies and has involved participation and contribution from more than twenty universities. This paper will describe TRAIL, including the need for its development, current structure, and future directions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides information regarding a report which gives an overview of action of a conference bureau TextRelease and GreyNet, the grey literature network service. It gives an account of GreyNet, which is dedicated to research and publications with an open access. According to the author, there is need of capital and financing team for investing on GreyNet so that it can expand globally. It is mentioned that the efforts are been to make GreyNet, an international association.

The article provides information about the U.S. Defense Technical Information Centre (DTIC) which serves as centre of information for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD). It gives a brief introduction of DTIC which collects, stores and processes technical documents like reports, thesis and dissertations produced by the DOD. It mentions the goal of DTIC is to provide reliable and essential information, rapidly and accurately.